All posts tagged "historical fiction"
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Tombland: A Shardlake Novel 7, by CJ Sansom
Book 7 in the Shardlake series sees Matthew Shardlake, Sergeant-at-Law, take up his law robes and investigate murder and mayhem again in the year 1549.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, by Robert Hillman
The compelling tale of small-town farmer, Tom Hope, and exotic bookshop owner, Hannah in post-World War II Australia who discover each other against a backdrop of their own personal tragedies.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Stars in the Southern Sky, by Elizabeth Haran
A pregnant Estella leaves her unfaithful, bankrupt husband in 1950s London to take a job as a vet in the remote and quirky South Australian outpost of Kangaroo Crossing.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Pearler’s Wife, by Roxanne Dhand
As a young woman from a good family, Maisie travels across the world to marry a distant cousin of whom she knows nothing, but things don’t turn out at all as she was expecting.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Last Hours, by Minette Walters
In the summer of 1348, the Lady Anne of the Manor of Develish goes against the church to try to isolate and save villages from an outbreak of the Black Death.
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824Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Woman in the Wood, by Lesley Pearse
The lives of twins from age 15-70 in post-WW2 depression times as they're faced with the community reaction to citizens who don’t quite fit the norm.
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636Books & LiteratureBook Review: A Dangerous Crossing, by Rachel Rhys
A servant girl's life becomes surreal when she responds to an ad for government-assisted passage to Australia and befriends the more well-to-do and racy set.
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2.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Spy, by Paulo Coelho
A fictional account of a true story. A dancer, confidante to the rich and elite is arrested in her hotel room on the Champs–Élysées and accused of espionage.
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2.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The German Girl, by Armando Lucas Correa, translated by Nick Caistor
Based on true events, Jewish people are evacuated to America & Cuba during WWII, only to be turned back into the hands of Nazis when they arrived.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Chocolate Tin, by Fiona McIntosh
A woman born into a wealthy family with an obligation to marry well dreams of independence, with her ultimate dream to work in the chocolate industry.
